Pretty Little Liars
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zviThis show seems, well, inappropriate for a channel called the Family Channel. It's about sex, lies, and knowing what you did last summer.
It is also a story about teenage girls, their relationships with each other, and their mamas.
Five girls were inseparable in sophomore year. Then the mean one, Allison (Sasha Pieterse) disappeared from a sleepover. The other four drifted apart. We have:
Aria: rebel without a cause. Or much rebellion, actually, because her parents support her individuality. (Hey, if your mom were Holly Marie Combs, she'd probably be pretty chill, too.) (there's some boring issues with her dad which I hope get quickly resolved, and some much less boring issues with this dude she's interested in, which I still hope get quickly resolved because that relationship is SO DUMB on both their parts.) Played by Lucy Hale.
Hannah: She used to be the (for TV values of fat) fat one. Now she's the skinny, fashionable, popular, but secretly troubled girl. (shoplifting, lies, poor nutrition!) Has a minion, Mona, who used to be a dweeb, but is now almost as cool as Hannah. Played by Ashley Benson
Emily: She's a swimmer. Who likes to make out with girls. ♥ ♥ She actually seems to be like a decent human being, and gets along with her mom, as played by Nia Peebles. This family may actually be intended to be read as ethnic, since both Shay Mitchell and Nia Peebles are mixed white/Filipino. (She makes out with the girl who moved into Allison's house, Maya, who is played by Bianca Lawson [Kendra from Buffy.])
Spencer: She's the sort of girl who wears tailored clothing in high school. You might dismiss her as super straight laced, except she keeps making plays for her older sister's men. I sort of can't blame her, the sister is that favored older child who grabs up all of the good air in the family. Played by Troian Bellisario
In any case, vague and unspecific ominous happenings occur, wispy dollops of sexual tension from many sides, secrets are alluded to but not stated directly, and two enemies from without force the four girls to draw tightly together in an unhappy knot of secretkeepers.
This is super relevant to my interests, and I'm quite glad![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
latxcvi convinced me to watch. The pilot is re-running tonight at 7 p.m. and the second episode will threepeat at 8, 9, and 10. (ETA: Also available on Hulu)
It is also a story about teenage girls, their relationships with each other, and their mamas.
Five girls were inseparable in sophomore year. Then the mean one, Allison (Sasha Pieterse) disappeared from a sleepover. The other four drifted apart. We have:
Aria: rebel without a cause. Or much rebellion, actually, because her parents support her individuality. (Hey, if your mom were Holly Marie Combs, she'd probably be pretty chill, too.) (there's some boring issues with her dad which I hope get quickly resolved, and some much less boring issues with this dude she's interested in, which I still hope get quickly resolved because that relationship is SO DUMB on both their parts.) Played by Lucy Hale.
Hannah: She used to be the (for TV values of fat) fat one. Now she's the skinny, fashionable, popular, but secretly troubled girl. (shoplifting, lies, poor nutrition!) Has a minion, Mona, who used to be a dweeb, but is now almost as cool as Hannah. Played by Ashley Benson
Emily: She's a swimmer. Who likes to make out with girls. ♥ ♥ She actually seems to be like a decent human being, and gets along with her mom, as played by Nia Peebles. This family may actually be intended to be read as ethnic, since both Shay Mitchell and Nia Peebles are mixed white/Filipino. (She makes out with the girl who moved into Allison's house, Maya, who is played by Bianca Lawson [Kendra from Buffy.])
Spencer: She's the sort of girl who wears tailored clothing in high school. You might dismiss her as super straight laced, except she keeps making plays for her older sister's men. I sort of can't blame her, the sister is that favored older child who grabs up all of the good air in the family. Played by Troian Bellisario
In any case, vague and unspecific ominous happenings occur, wispy dollops of sexual tension from many sides, secrets are alluded to but not stated directly, and two enemies from without force the four girls to draw tightly together in an unhappy knot of secretkeepers.
This is super relevant to my interests, and I'm quite glad
latxcvi convinced me to watch. The pilot is re-running tonight at 7 p.m. and the second episode will threepeat at 8, 9, and 10. (ETA: Also available on Hulu)